Category: Data
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Mapping Western Economic Diversification Grants
A few weeks ago two new data sets appeared on the Open Data Canada website, WD – Grants and Contributions over $25,000 and Project Geo-Information, which "provides geographical information on projects issued by or on behalf of Western Economic Diversification Canada." Not particularly well-named data sets, but that's another issue. I thought it would be a…
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Watching “Fort McMurray” grow
A new data set was recently released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Land Use for 2010. As I was poking at it I saw that this data set in turn leads to an interactive map in which one can explore not only the 2010 data set, but also 2000 and 1990. As I was poking at…
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Open Data For the Loss, or the Win?
Two seemingly-contradictory open data stories crossed my path today. First, The Scholarly Kitchen notes that Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World, and one of the reasons may be that the PLOS ONE, the current Largest Journal, requires authors to make “all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without…
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Results of Innovations in Scholarly Communication Survey
My colleague Christie pointed me to this interesting bit of research, Survey of scholarly communication tool usage. I'm pretty sure I didn't contribute to the original survey, but over 20,000 scholars did! The survey was run by two librarians from Utrecht University Library, Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman. I've only started to poke at the…
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Recreating Hilary Mason’s Research-quality data sets bitly bundle
I'm about halfway through an excellent Coursera MOOC called Getting and Cleaning Data, part of my plan to learn R. We were just shown a slide listing a bunch of collections where we could find data sets to play with, and the first one on the list had disappeared. Turns out it was originally created…